[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2008, Book II)]
[July 14, 2008]
[Pages 1015-1016]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Memorandum on Modification of the Withdrawal of Areas of the United 
States Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Disposition
July 14, 2008

Memorandum for the Secretary of the Interior

Subject: Modification of the Withdrawal of Areas of the United States 
Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition

    Under the authority vested in me as President of the United States, 
including section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 43 
U.S.C. 1341(a), I hereby modify the prior memoranda of withdrawals from 
disposition by leasing of the United States Outer Continental Shelf 
issued on August 4, 1992, and June 12, 1998, as modified on January 9, 
2007, to read only as follows:
    Under the authority vested in me as President of the United States, 
including section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 43 
U.S.C. 1341(a), I hereby withdraw from disposition by leasing, for a 
time period without specific expiration, those areas of the Outer 
Continental Shelf designated as of July 14, 2008, as Marine Sanctuaries 
under the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972, 16 
U.S.C. 1431-1434, 33 U.S.C. 1401 et seq.
    Nothing in this withdrawal affects the rights under existing leases 
in these areas.

                                                          George W. Bush

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